Project NumberProject TitleAbstractSummary StatementHelp ReceivedThe question that my project hoped to answer was if eye color had an effect on peripheral vision I testedthe peripheral vision of peop ID: 940946
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2010 PROJECT SUMMARY Project NumberProject TitleAbstractSummary StatementHelp ReceivedThe question that my project hoped to answer was if eye color had an effect on peripheral vision. I testedthe peripheral vision of people with brown, blue, and green eyes, five times each for each eye, left andright.Methods/MaterialsIn order to conduct my experiment, I had to first prepare a peripheral vision protractor to measure therange of peripheral vision each person had. I constructed the protractor by using a thick poster board. Theposter board was cut in a semi-circle with a small nose hole. Then, it was marked with lines showing theangles in degrees. Afterwards, a push pin was attached, acting as the focus point. Once the protractor wasmade, volunteers were experimented on. There were seven volunteers for each eye color, brown, green,and blue. Each volunteer then used the peripheral vision protractor by putting their nose against the nosehole while staring at the focus point. As soon as the volunteers were ready, I slowly moved a bluesymbol/marker along the side of the protractor. When the volunteers were able to see the blue marker,they would say 'stop,' and the data would be recorded in the lab book. Each person was tested five timesfor each eye, left and right.ResultsAfter obtaining the range of peripheral vision for each person, the averages were then found to determinewhich eye color had the widest range of peripheral vision. My results were that people with brown eyeshad the widest range of peripheral vision. The average for the range of peripheral vision the people withbrown eyes had was 14.7 degrees for the left eye and 12.7 degrees for the right eye. (The smaller thenumber, the wider the range of peripheral vision.) The average for the people with blue eyes was 19.9degrees for the left eye and 18.6 degrees for the right eye. Lastly, the average for the people with greeneyes was 18.6 degrees for the left eye and 17.9 degrees for the right eye. This shows that the people withbrown eyes had the widest range of peripheral vision, the people with green eyes was in between, and thepeople with blue eyes had the narrowest range of peripheral vision.Conclusions/DiscussionWith my results, it was evident that my hypothesis was accurate. People with brown eyes did have thewidest range of peripheral vision, people with blue eyes had the narrowest range, and people with greeneyes had a range of peripheral vision that was in between the people with brown and blue eyes.